Every one could see she's a nagging woman.

And they seemed quite prosperous.

They're hysterical-- that's what's the matter with them, all of them--except the eldest, the one that never spoke.

I rather liked him." "But I _haven't!_" he reiterated, splashing his positive statement into the water.
"My dear, I know you haven't." But he guessed that she was humouring him.

He guessed that she was determined to keep him at all costs.